Ashes of Our Oath

[Verse 1] Two kids in torn-up capes Dirt on our knees Big plans You swore you'd carve your name On every trembling map I swore I'd guard the small The quiet The in-between We cut our palms and laughed Called it an oath to keep [Chorus] How did heroes break like this? You chase crowns I chase silence You burned skies for your idea of light I held my ground for a borrowed night We were brothers in a backyard dream Now I'm the shield Standing in the path of your steel Ashes of our oath on my tongue [Verse 2] You climbed through gilded halls Learned how to twist a room Called all your battles "cause" Like that could cleanse the wounds I stayed in nameless towns Patchwork of lullabies Held shaking hands till dawn Just trying to buy them time [Chorus] How did heroes break like this? You choose fire I choose sirens You raise flags where the houses fall I draw lines you keep crossing Tall We were comrades in a cardboard fort Now I'm the hand Pulling every match from your hand Ashes of our oath in my lungs [Bridge] Do you remember rain on rusted swings? (hey) You said "If not us Then who will win?" You won a throne of broken wings I won these scars from holding still Tell me Which one of us Lost the plot first? [Chorus] How did heroes break like this? You want thrones I want mornings You cast storms in a borrowed name I stand bare in the freezing rain We were mirrors once upon a field Now I'm the scar You can't erase You call me "traitor" Ashes of our oath in the air [Outro] Two kids in torn-up capes Watching what we became You wage wars to feel alive I fight you Just to let someone else survive